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Franklyn

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Franklyn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. Its best rank was 486th, in 1933.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
120.00% of boys
Peak year
1933133 births
Best rank
#486in 1933
Since 1885
6,073people given the name
Babies named Franklyn, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

6,073 boys have been named Franklyn in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1933, with 133 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1951, and the 1930s alone account for 13%. It has spent 57 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Franklyn
1880s11
1890s28
1900s68
1910s532
1920s805
1930s819
1940s686
1950s571
1960s462
1970s365
1980s462
1990s500
2000s391
2010s268
2020s105

In 1933, its biggest year

Franklyn was the 486th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1933 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1933.

Names that rose and fell with Franklyn

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.